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''[[DangerDeadpan Tropers and tropesses, this is your captain speaking]]. We are currently cruising at an [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale immeasurable altitude]], and will be [[ComingInHot unexpectedly forced to make an emergency crash landing]] in approximately [[ExactTimeToFailure three and a half hours]]. The fasten seatbelts light has been switched off, so you may feel free to [[DeathInTheClouds murder your fellow passengers under mysterious circumstances]], but please be aware that [[RuleOfDrama drama dictates]] there be a GreatDetective on board at all times. Our [[SexyStewardess impossibly glamorous cabin crew]] will soon be along to provide you with FanserviceWithASmile, and in the meantime, please enjoy our fine selection of tropes related to aircraft and air travel.''
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''[[DangerDeadpan Tropers and tropesses, this is your captain speaking]]. We are currently cruising at an [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale immeasurable altitude]], and will be [[ComingInHot unexpectedly forced to make an emergency crash landing]] in approximately [[ExactTimeToFailure three and a half hours]]. The fasten seatbelts light has been switched off, so you may feel free to [[DeathInTheClouds murder your fellow passengers under mysterious circumstances]], but please be aware that [[RuleOfDrama drama dictates]] there be a GreatDetective on board at all times. Our [[SexyStewardess impossibly glamorous cabin crew]] will soon be along to provide you with FanserviceWithASmile, who may also provide you a free entry ticket to the MileHighClub, and in the meantime, please enjoy our fine selection of tropes related to aircraft and air travel.''
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* ChopperOnStandby: There's a helicopter ready when a character needs need one.
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* OverlyLongAirplaneBannerGag: A really long banner is attached to an airplane.
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* ComingInHot: A barely controllable, if even that, aircraft comes in for what ground and air crews are convinced is an inevitable crash landing.
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* AcePilot
* AirborneAircraftCarrier
* AirplaneOfLove
* UsefulNotes/{{Airships}}
* AirstrikeImpossible
* AirVoyance
* AlwaysKnowAPilot
* BellyScrapingFlight
* BlackHelicopter
* BuzzingTheDeck
* ClipItsWings
* CoolAirship
* CoolPlane
* CrashCourseLanding
* DangerDeadpan
* DeathInTheClouds
* DisposablePilot
* EjectionSeat
* EpisodeOnAPlane
* EveryHelicopterIsAHuey
* FighterLaunchingSequence
* FutureCopter
* GiantFlyer
* GunshipRescue
* HammerspaceParachute
* HelicopterBlender
* HelicopterFlyswatter
* HellishCopter
* ImprobablePilotingSkills
* JustForTheHeliOfIt
* JustPlaneWrong
* LandingGearShot
* LookMaNoPlane
* MidairCollision
* MidairRepair
* MileHighClub
* MissingManFormation
* OceanicAirlines
* OffscreenAirplanePullup
* OldSchoolDogfight
* ParachuteInATree
* PardoPush
* PlaneAwfulFlight
* UsefulNotes/PlaneSpotting
* PlanesTrainsAndImbeciles
* ScreamingPlaneBaby
* SexyStewardess
* ShortLivedAerialEscape
* SkyConsumingDogfight
* SkyHeist
* SpacePlane
* StandardHollywoodStrafingProcedure
* StukaScream
* UsefulNotes/SuperiorFirepowerBombers
* ThoseMagnificentFlyingMachines
* TurbineBlender
* {{Wingman}}
* WrongParachuteGag
* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld
* AirborneAircraftCarrier
* AirplaneOfLove
* UsefulNotes/{{Airships}}
* AirstrikeImpossible
* AirVoyance
* AlwaysKnowAPilot
* BellyScrapingFlight
* BlackHelicopter
* BuzzingTheDeck
* ClipItsWings
* CoolAirship
* CoolPlane
* CrashCourseLanding
* DangerDeadpan
* DeathInTheClouds
* DisposablePilot
* EjectionSeat
* EpisodeOnAPlane
* EveryHelicopterIsAHuey
* FighterLaunchingSequence
* FutureCopter
* GiantFlyer
* GunshipRescue
* HammerspaceParachute
* HelicopterBlender
* HelicopterFlyswatter
* HellishCopter
* ImprobablePilotingSkills
* JustForTheHeliOfIt
* JustPlaneWrong
* LandingGearShot
* LookMaNoPlane
* MidairCollision
* MidairRepair
* MileHighClub
* MissingManFormation
* OceanicAirlines
* OffscreenAirplanePullup
* OldSchoolDogfight
* ParachuteInATree
* PardoPush
* PlaneAwfulFlight
* UsefulNotes/PlaneSpotting
* PlanesTrainsAndImbeciles
* ScreamingPlaneBaby
* SexyStewardess
* ShortLivedAerialEscape
* SkyConsumingDogfight
* SkyHeist
* SpacePlane
* StandardHollywoodStrafingProcedure
* StukaScream
* UsefulNotes/SuperiorFirepowerBombers
* ThoseMagnificentFlyingMachines
* TurbineBlender
* {{Wingman}}
* WrongParachuteGag
* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld
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* AcePilot
AcePilot: A top-class, badass pilot who can get several kills (if military) or overcome aircraft failures and save lives while piloting (if civilian).
*AirborneAircraftCarrier
AirborneAircraftCarrier: A mobile floating airport and oftentimes fortress.
*AirplaneOfLove
AirplaneOfLove: An airplane (or bird) flying over someone's head to symbolize unrequited love.
*UsefulNotes/{{Airships}}
UsefulNotes/{{Airships}}: A UsefulNotes page on airships, how they work, their history, and their applications.
*AirstrikeImpossible
AirstrikeImpossible: A pilot demonstrates their ImprobablePilotingSkills by flying through extremely tight or otherwise less-than-optimal flying spaces.
*AirVoyance
AirVoyance: Characters standing outside an airport always know exactly which plane has their loved one on it.
*AlwaysKnowAPilot
AlwaysKnowAPilot: A pilot's skills are useful or necessary in the story.
*BellyScrapingFlight
BellyScrapingFlight: An aircraft (or flying creature) brushes the ground or a terrestrial obstacle in a close call.
*BlackHelicopter
BlackHelicopter: The go-to aircraft for government agencies.
*BuzzingTheDeck
BuzzingTheDeck: A pilot (or someone who can fly somehow) makes a fast pass very low to the ground or close to a target, usually with the intent to startle or frighten.
*ClipItsWings
ClipItsWings: A flying target's wings are its most vulnerable spot, so attacking or damaging those wings can cause the target to no longer be capable of flight; applies to both planes and winged people/animals.
*CoolAirship
CoolAirship: An exceptionally cool and often luxurious airship which is owned by a major character, or otherwise play a prominent role in the story.
*CoolPlane
CoolPlane: An exceptionally cool plane, helicopter, or glider plane which is typically either luxurious or highly technologically advanced.
*CrashCourseLanding
CrashCourseLanding: The pilot of a plane is somehow incapacitated, and a civilian with no (or outdated) pilot training must land it safely.
*DangerDeadpan
DangerDeadpan: A pilot who always keeps their cool; may also apply to non-pilots.
*DeathInTheClouds
DeathInTheClouds: A stock murder mystery plot which takes place on an airplane.
*DisposablePilot
DisposablePilot: The driver of a vehicle, in this case the pilot of the plane, has been incapacitated and cannot drive, spelling chaos for the passengers.
*EjectionSeat
EjectionSeat: A character's plane has an ejection seat, which they use to get rid of an undesirable, or to facilitate escape.
*EpisodeOnAPlane
EpisodeOnAPlane: An episode that takes place on an airplane.
*EveryHelicopterIsAHuey
EveryHelicopterIsAHuey: Helicopters from the Bell Huey family showing up as a generic helicopter, often in place of other more logical choices.
*FighterLaunchingSequence
FighterLaunchingSequence: RuleOfCool insists that when a bunch of fighters (planes, spaceships, etc.) go into battle, you always have to see them taking off first.
*FutureCopter
FutureCopter: Impossibly cool, futuristic, tiltrotor aircraft.
*GiantFlyer
GiantFlyer: Large flying creatures in fantasy works.
*GunshipRescue
GunshipRescue: The heroes are saved from a BolivianArmyEnding by the arrival of one or several combat vehicles, or combat aircraft in this case.
*HammerspaceParachute
HammerspaceParachute: A character pulls out a parachute from {{Hammerspace}}.
*HelicopterBlender
HelicopterBlender: Using a helicopter's rotor blades as a weapon.
*HelicopterFlyswatter
HelicopterFlyswatter: A monster or character so big they can swat low-flying aircraft, oftentimes helicopters, with ease.
*HellishCopter
HellishCopter: Helicopters disproportionately crash in media, even when it's not necessarily expected.
*ImprobablePilotingSkills
ImprobablePilotingSkills: Good piloting lets vehicles outperform others of the same model, or even break the laws of physics.
*JustForTheHeliOfIt
JustForTheHeliOfIt: When someone uses or suggests to use a helicopter to get somewhere, another character criticizes or ridicules this use.
*JustPlaneWrong
JustPlaneWrong: ArtisticLicense -- Aviation.
*LandingGearShot
LandingGearShot: A quick shot of a plane landing on a runway as shorthand for a change in geographical location to the other side of the country or the globe.
*LookMaNoPlane
LookMaNoPlane: A character who can fly without a plane can will fly very close to an aircraft, then either annoy or scare the living daylights out of the passengers.
*MidairCollision
MidairCollision: One aircraft is damaged enough to cause it to veer off course and crash into another aircraft.
*MidairRepair
MidairRepair: Repairing the aircraft (or spacecraft) in the middle of the flight.
*MileHighClub
MileHighClub: Two or more characters have sex on a plane, usually in the bathroom.
*MissingManFormation
MissingManFormation: A ceremonial incomplete fighter jet formation to honor a fallen teammate.
*OceanicAirlines
OceanicAirlines: If there's a fictional aircraft disaster, chances are, the airline involved is called this.
*OffscreenAirplanePullup
OffscreenAirplanePullup: An aircraft pulls up out of a fall at the last second and out of view.
*OldSchoolDogfight
OldSchoolDogfight: Aircraft (and spacecraft) behaving like pre-Cold War planes in situations where they shouldn't.
*ParachuteInATree
ParachuteInATree: Someone with a parachute snags onto something just before hitting the ground, leaving the owner dangling in the air.
*PardoPush
PardoPush: A pilot uses their aircraft to push a damaged aircraft so they can land safely.
*PlaneAwfulFlight
PlaneAwfulFlight: Plane flights are uncomfortable or even downright miserable to sit through.
*UsefulNotes/PlaneSpotting
UsefulNotes/PlaneSpotting: A UsefulNotes page on tracking the movement of aircraft as a hobby.
*PlanesTrainsAndImbeciles
PlanesTrainsAndImbeciles: Airport workers being painfully unhelpful, if not outright abusive.
*ScreamingPlaneBaby
ScreamingPlaneBaby: If a character is riding a plane (or public transportation), a baby will inevitably start crying.
*SexyStewardess
SexyStewardess: Female flight attendants are portrayed as MsFanservice.
*ShortLivedAerialEscape
ShortLivedAerialEscape: A group, usually the bad guys, try to escape the scene on an aircraft, only for the enemy to take it down before it gets far.
*SkyConsumingDogfight
SkyConsumingDogfight: A large-scale battle sequence where many aircraft shoot at each other in close proximity.
*SkyHeist
SkyHeist: Using an aircraft to steal something, then flying away with the object dangling from the aircraft.
*SpacePlane
SpacePlane: A spaceship that looks and works like an airplane.
*StandardHollywoodStrafingProcedure
StandardHollywoodStrafingProcedure: Attacking from the air with a heaping dose of RuleOfCool and RuleOfDrama.
*StukaScream
StukaScream: When something falls at high speed, it somehow always plays the Ju-87 "Stuka" siren, i.e. it sounds like a World War II German dive bomber.
*UsefulNotes/SuperiorFirepowerBombers
UsefulNotes/SuperiorFirepowerBombers: A UsefulNotes page on bomber planes.
*ThoseMagnificentFlyingMachines
ThoseMagnificentFlyingMachines: Flying machines in fiction are weird and have a {{steampunk}} aesthetic.
*TurbineBlender
TurbineBlender: When a living entity flies into a jet engine, [[LudicrousGibs things get messy]].
*{{Wingman}}
{{Wingman}}: The guy flying the other warplane beside the hero.
*WrongParachuteGag
WrongParachuteGag: A character grabs a bag and jumps from a great height, mistaking it for a parachute, when it actually contains something else.
*ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorldZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: The prominence of Zeppelin airships are the first sign that you are in a parallel universe.
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